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а... а. camaman iadaa неет ш ETE id c ocana nn n in eanan an dda aatia oa mn e Emn n 4А CÓ жы daaraan oai aae atat i 
rowing vegetable with those necessary aliments | MA, small АМАЧ of humie acid їшраг{в to it|from their surfaces ir 
эү be sei by man oriog, or even mA tillage. a yellow or brown colour, r beams are withdraw ie MN VERUM P TP Иии 
ow, this theory, after having shown E: the Su PA ү fpe ense а the water of peaty Soils; but or is this arid condition of the soil the sole cause сЁ 
clearest manner to be oppose ў. 1 tl from favouring vegetation, is peculiarly the absence of plants in the deserts of Africa and 
vegetable physiology, appears to have been 1 j та it; pes сап а ра article of humus Бе | Arabia, for the uw en se ition from extreme heat to 
M an nd 8 till to hold ite ground i in many гын rt the vegetable tissue. Indeed, | extreme cold, which takes. place in these regions, is in 
tr late researches of the present Master of the pod bighly prejudicia м the health of most species 
iis s er mor; and that yon ous weed, which the | Mint, it would appear, that a solution of vegeta table | of vegetables, 
йе flatters himself he За гое. hy Jena and mould is пеар. of 2 impa admission at all into the It #4 well known, from the accounts of travellers, that 
oat oeing, it springs up а r the thin membrane which incases | after a day of scorching хан а night tra " 
places where it is least expected, and requires a reitera- | the exsremities the roots, although SANI penetrable almost extreme coldness one severe eno ugh e 
tion of the same treatment as befor e for its re ян M Ach s is almost impermeable to bodies of | cause w mor. i aen in porous vessels, in wh hich 
s - E thought was наат to me СЕ time |а agno or viscid nature, like vegetable extractive | manner ice monly obtain ed i in mg в cold 
ago by th rusal of an ишу: н. m Times news- re endered more penetrating from 
paper, Н "feos its appear hat journal, no р "ate Memoir by Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, the bod 
less than from its own e fos 7 ih bespoke Ше | on the Cause, of Jt. Fre of the Clover егор, pidity, than would ehe if the хорів 
hand = a practised writer, naturally ым А one's 1 D^ X ied rs affo ording an indirect sup: akay a d amount „of aqueous vapour 
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Це t dtl ly by providing d ishment to certain This cold a tion of heat into 
con ата deine and ultimate ruin v1 а country Fin ding that soils. which yielded abundant pin of | space from thia -— enden the : dless nights that 
were predicted from t fi revail in these dry and tropical regions. But indes 
exhaustion of its vegetable m mould. gr row Clover, these gentle men arrived at the conclusion, | | pendently of this, the cutting down ot timber exerts а 
«Тһе means of increasing or preserving the vegetable аб th е latter і їз опе of a clas 
mould,” remarks the writer, ^is the greatest question that | for wid in the soil of e Trees arrest in their progress the е кой mists 
E man, a Beds еа! Я plex organic compounds, beari ing, asit would seem, ‘the which anson, over the surface of the d, and 
level cultivable portion of the globe, the vegetable mould is me reln! лет the о deposit their moisture ; А" ab the 
fast ering no m y viar t AA 29, tem, and m in t , | game ^p ыш from the ground itself will 
does not seem to be awa: a вакд or| -NO hen the wind ла з free access than 
Maine to Florida, in Lower Germany west of the Vistula, a nd | 50 ary to ipee that I am gla ad to esca. pe the | when ka з ground } їз protected by w 
in many parts of Spain and France, the vegetable mould is aide of adopting it, by availing myself of another In p of the extent to veh еде causes have 
much exhausted, and no means are taken to prevent ultimate | view РЕ the subject which Baron Liebig has suggested, | o ated delet ou to the accounts which 
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man, and perhaps m e bs A кы те ы Lana agency of he CIA may e been, th e manure had not|produced in the elimate of Venezuela by the cutting 
Nature; first to m " the Em land by t dense Pine penoteated to the Ba oraal strata of the soil, down to | down of its forests, and likewise to the ease of the 
n бет СА ges when, by this mios a трн | the Clover pushes its roots. He ence, ii n spite of Island of SRM. us the removal of the timber 
th th of broad-leave ea Ue, ЧӨ remaiu for ages more under superfluity introd was followi ed by the drying up of the only sprin 
t eL ipie if the exhaustion is too far advancod, or the lieto soil, the Clovef languished from want of food in the "t the island posses: вА ъв à where the заара 
too dry for forest growth, the co оаа to be again dipped for | parts to which its roots resorted for subsistence. estoration of the trees brought with ìt the recovery 
the At any rate we should be disposed to wait for of the lost water. 
Pine tiens of sheer sand, the 5 venelane monid E: pon the P à experim ч ents, before we took m e in an| These and other ances, which I have adduced in 
clearance of the forest cover, amoun Me o from a foot to s ypothesis mid uum о be at variance wit | my late publication entitled “ Lectures оп Climate," * 
inches W£ rich, black, a. mould, pL this under 12 ог | preconceived notions yuh “rogard АР, the fuuctions t prove, that man has in many instances modified ina 
but light-coloured poor as would delight vegetable e life io з it se В viden i for good or for evil the condition 
the heart of Liebig or Professor ri пзе form veg : 1s b by of the countries in whic h he has established himself. 
E uu lue i river deltas orm nau absorbing - oxygen and thereby M cirbonio acid, | Neither do I mean фо deny, that virgin soil, when first 
кез Au the vegetablo m ould lost, but even the marlaud clay | ad 2dly by its porota nature, which enables 16 to turned "p by the e pud ч degere of yielding, without 
once existing in the enti узай ar ay, forming the кн АА атой! nt of pro 
ofthe Rhine, Weser, PDA кай YI có In the greater part of | in bot 
the plough but sterile Е" sand, termed ‘geest land,'|, In 4 "virgin soil therefore, exposed fi хоу hna i nd which (регате makes, -— iier appear e the 
Р? а corruption 
“Liebig,” continues i riter, “has written in ignorance, at 
poe: ignoring the impor inia of vegetable mould, the garnered 
food supply 0 of the P higher vegetables, prepared by Nature in a 
manner perhaps e than anything else o honing a provision 
end. Liebig noma so m { 
what he calls ир А 
нан e will thus 
decomposition of e amus, and the дне of the liv ded 
will » — to the growing plant through the oer 1 d (то м ачама н 
RAPHY. 
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components of the so oil not easily to be recovered," alogy between eine a anim bi 
"This communication, as proceeding from an anony- cordingly the letter en "pared in the Times | 8280 
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M writer, would n ot ha ve calle d. ia т 50 — Косу from Baron Lieb big a reply, in which, i ФИГ ЖӨНӨ Mow d pii, Sow T, & iato сиву 
organism was ms x т less о: ў 
ЕЖ notbing else necessary, Г MM РРР оп 
the bonie acid given out by t the Reds mod — i — er v ing |y : 
lucremaing w ith water supply, renders the water able to ina vigorous r. Het ЖАТА atare entertained |x : inlly cn э 1 ме т bs и D — "dr 
disde ^k convey ipse cavy op to the roi СЫ mouths of the | as to the exhaustion of the soil by drawing too fre m ee ri an ege li - ei ated Agricu ural Саге! ев 
n n of a heav. p. bein "sen y Б 
Bitibcial small manures £0 ТОП ed by Liebig and his | UPON the vege E, mulated during khe lapse. as my views ron counter to of those of оты 
followers, there results a great мелей of the other «e а, , Seem pae cal, and — upon a mistaken | Жем genera, s nd those, ito 1) GE On еб uM 
бой É 
of шышы paper whieh һа d ps icr но ine А i v ле, jury fione 41 scele parson, cultivating а few. "Mo es of glebe only, can 
colum as that in = € number | a moral delinquency the revival of an ата which | Берт 1 nd the ade of hus d. зиде) to Mire 
а leading айбе was devoted to the subject, in which, to oblivi 1 
without precisely adopting the views of his corres- | This, hongtet, I shall torbear to quote, as it appears to hier n that vh Ра 1 give a br ief statement of 
pondent, the es seemed to adopt the idea that | me, that in the article in алган оп - which he во B upon w "xc itd Hes Ve ндөй, T 
the earth w min: g effete, and tha t the gradual | severely ——2 there certain admixture 0! EWA h y ШШЕ, rien e ^ whom 
of m trutb with error; of tru eia the writer чийн rejoice ме тапу, ар зПепсе 
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imme vtr dioc p also some of оаа fierce opponents who Fats me to 
ebore sae ated өйне a. unma И УИА, er be a mere xou oth without experience or 
»pprehended r Now this conceptio: 
tle eauses of the "sterili ity of ain pecie ont teres а жыпар а aci id; r, when under the influence of the “old 
V € praetice, and so me vainly confident of eas 
riui ROC S gelb ing «Perm to the ов plant, Бе anticipates the Du Wu i m ice m o геи "ue эй 
, L n H er t " - * . 
of partie is "a d, ihe-erops m туз y For іп admitting the former to bethe mode in which КУБУ, VE Y tue й i in ge bed rei d 
fall off, owing to the deficieney of tlie necessary | pecie. Am exhaustion might inspire, since the very pec [^ p Pide, вае ке, be: i. uM ar 
| теле зе 4 тене й = ede din Калем of ere voe ze реу py поша ц ticularly if 1 hat \ те E К hi t tt в 
brated Sans comi m Т. э (Do norme ы the support y uro theory peet 2 À to th iem: ёш}. бай үз k, fa forn 
. withstanding its being in direct ect opposition to the | арреагз to derive from experience, it cannot ией ре | that all who ved $e this P roug will re cknow ровя 
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received principles of science, it held its ground amongst | disputed that дао! Ж the most fertile districts in: аме | уд they shal 
many agrienliaral Aheotistey-until-Liobig..exposed-ite, ancient of those ш the modera, have > : 
sterili 
the sbores of Asia. 
I epe лы БЫ 
Мог ean this be wholly erc n Cre seg and ; 
generation, for 
would be carried оё — Рег i 
bevans а, an — y speedily di . is 
onl к gradual and slow conversion into |i 
acid by the oxygen of ve air — 2 
in гы of moisture that it consu away, to 
again renewed e the ou — which are йн 
ia the soil. There exists, i ‚ап the 
humic, produced the он of oxygen up. E it, - 
ater of springs te t ble 
mould, as in those of the stalactitie caverns of Franconia, 
ER MM) prc und Ni through humus, маи. exposed to осоне bent 91 
is nevertheless and limpid; whereas а і Ше biting cold produced by tue 
